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    "name": "Gonzalo Ríos",
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    "summary": "Director of AI Platform at Rebrandly. My team builds the paved road for AI-assisted engineering: coding agents with the right context and permissions, automated review, guardrails and CI/CD gates, so code written with AI reaches production as safely as any other. I got here through fifteen years of DevOps and SRE. Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform and AWS are still my daily tools, and I write Go and Python to automate everything that should not need a human.",
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      "region": "Catalonia",
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      "name": "Rebrandly",
      "position": "Director of AI Platform",
      "url": "https://www.rebrandly.com/",
      "location": "Remote from Barcelona · HQ in Dublin",
      "startDate": "2025-10",
      "summary": "Leading a team spread across seven countries and time zones that builds the platform for shipping AI-generated code safely: coding agents, automated review, guardrails and delivery gates.",
      "highlights": [
        "Lead a team spread across the USA, Canada, Spain, Italy, Ireland, Ukraine and Pakistan.",
        "Own the platform for AI-assisted engineering: coding agents with scoped context and permissions, automated review, guardrails and CI/CD gates.",
        "Make code written with AI reach production as safely as any other change."
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      "name": "Rebrandly",
      "position": "Lead DevOps Engineer",
      "url": "https://www.rebrandly.com/",
      "location": "Remote · HQ in Dublin, Ireland",
      "startDate": "2024-04",
      "endDate": "2025-10",
      "summary": "Led the team behind critical infrastructure, standardised our processes and built a sub-second bulk ingest API in Go.",
      "highlights": [
        "Led the team responsible for the uninterrupted operation of critical infrastructure.",
        "Documented and standardised the team’s processes so practices are easy to follow.",
        "Designed and led a Go API that inserts hundreds of thousands of records into DynamoDB in under a second, key to closing deals with strategic customers."
      ]
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    {
      "name": "Rebrandly",
      "position": "DevOps Engineer",
      "url": "https://www.rebrandly.com/",
      "location": "Remote · HQ in Dublin, Ireland",
      "startDate": "2023-06",
      "endDate": "2024-04",
      "summary": "Sped up CI pipelines, introduced auto-scaling and migrated legacy services to Amazon ECS.",
      "highlights": [
        "Optimised CI pipelines, dramatically reducing deployment times.",
        "Improved resource usage and kept container images up to date.",
        "Introduced auto-scaling and migrated legacy services to Amazon ECS."
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    },
    {
      "name": "SiteHost",
      "position": "System Engineer",
      "url": "https://sitehost.nz/",
      "location": "Auckland, New Zealand",
      "startDate": "2021-08",
      "endDate": "2023-05",
      "summary": "Kept a 15,000-container cloud healthy, rolled out a WAF and helped ship the Terraform provider v1.0.",
      "highlights": [
        "Maintained a custom Docker-based container cloud running more than 15,000 containers.",
        "Managed Xen virtualisation and automated configuration with Ansible.",
        "Rolled out a Web Application Firewall and a system to filter bad traffic.",
        "Built tools to analyse and monitor events across thousands of servers.",
        "Contributed to version 1.0 of the SiteHost Terraform provider, so staff and customers deploy VPS servers as code."
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    {
      "name": "Silverhost Hosting Chile",
      "position": "DevOps & Co-founder",
      "url": "https://www.silverhost.cl/",
      "location": "Las Condes, Chile",
      "startDate": "2011-08",
      "endDate": "2021-08",
      "summary": "Built a hosting company to more than 1,000 active clients, learning sales, negotiation, marketing and SEO along the way.",
      "highlights": [
        "Grew a hosting company to more than 1,000 active clients across Chile, with 500+ projects delivered.",
        "Combined dedicated servers, AWS and DigitalOcean into a reliable, affordable platform.",
        "Built tooling for malicious-traffic handling, spam monitoring and real-time malware detection.",
        "Ran sales, negotiation, digital marketing and SEO."
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    },
    {
      "name": "Agencia Blue",
      "position": "Backend Engineer",
      "location": "Providencia, Chile",
      "startDate": "2012-07",
      "endDate": "2014-02",
      "summary": "Mentored the team, moved the agency into custom development with Symfony and brought DevOps into delivery.",
      "highlights": [
        "Trained and mentored the team as the agency grew.",
        "Delivered sites with WordPress, Drupal and PrestaShop, then moved the agency into custom development with Silex and Symfony 2.",
        "Introduced DevOps: server and software configuration for custom projects."
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    },
    {
      "name": "Instituto Profesional Valle Central",
      "position": "System Engineer",
      "location": "Santiago, Chile",
      "startDate": "2011-10",
      "endDate": "2012-07",
      "summary": "Installed and ran web, database, DNS, firewall and VoIP services for a national education institute.",
      "highlights": [
        "Installed, configured and monitored Apache, Nginx and IIS web servers, MySQL and SQL Server databases, BIND DNS, a SonicWall firewall and Cisco Call Manager VoIP."
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      "area": "Systems Engineering",
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      "endDate": "2013"
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        "LLM evals"
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        "Python",
        "PHP",
        "Bash",
        "GraphQL",
        "gRPC"
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      "language": "Spanish",
      "fluency": "Native"
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        "Coding agents with scoped context and permissions",
        "Automated review and quality gates in CI/CD",
        "Guardrails, audit trail and cost visibility"
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        "Claude",
        "MCP",
        "GitHub Actions",
        "AWS",
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        "Parallel batching",
        "Built for enterprise volume"
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        "ECS"
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        "Docker",
        "Xen",
        "Ansible",
        "Linux"
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      "entity": "SiteHost",
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        "Go",
        "APIs"
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      "name": "Silverhost",
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        "1,000+ active clients",
        "500+ projects delivered",
        "Ten years of operations"
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        "Linux",
        "AWS",
        "DigitalOcean",
        "Security"
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